Rare. This handbook of pharmacy provides recipes for various remedies and cures against all manner of ailments using prescriptions derived from minerals, vegetables, and animals. The text is divided into four books. The first, "De Mineralogia," (pp. 37-101) treats medicinal waters, minerals and stones. Brief descriptions with supposed curative properties are reported for about 40 species including clay, marl, sulfur, arsenic, bitumen, various salts, magnet, hematite, cinnabar, cobalt, bismuth, antimony, iron, tin, gold, silver, lead, copper, pumice, chrysocolla, carbuncle, lapis lazuli, diamond, talc, selenite, alabaster, Ĉtite, sardonyx, nephrite, garnet, ruby, amethyst, sapphire, topaz, beryl, emerald, opal, etc. Book two covers "Phytologia" (pp. 102-523) and includes cures derived from corals, fungus, sponges, etc. The third book contains zoology (pp. 524-642), while book four discusses "Anthropologia" (pp. 643-649). An appendix concludes the text. The book was a very popular work going through at least five editions by 1751. Interestingly, it contains the first use of the word Pharmacology, which Dale derived from two Greek words, Pharmakon and Logos, which mean drug and science, respectively.

2. English, 1730 [First edition].
The | History | And | Antiquities | Of | Harwich and Dovercourt, | In the County of Essex, | By Silas Taylor, Gent. | To which is added a large | Appendix | containing | The Natural History of the Sea-Coast and Country about | Harwich, particularly the Cliff, the Fossils, Plants, Trees, | Birds and Fishes, &c. | Illustrated with Variety of Copper Plates. | [rule] | By Samuel Dale, | Author of the Pharmacologicia. | [rule] | London: | Printed for C. Davis in Pater-noster Row, T. Osborn in | Gray's-Inn, and H. Lintot at the Cross Keys against St. Dunstan's | Church in Fleet-street. MDCCXXX.

Very scarce. To this work by Silas Taylor [see note below] on the history and antiquities of Harwich and Dovercourt, Dale has added a long appendix dealing with the natural history of the region, including a study of the mineralogy. In "To The Reader" Dale notes that this is the first printing of Taylor's History, which had been written in 1676. Dale then provides a biographical sketch of Taylor's life and continues the book with a bibliography of about 200 works consulted in his notes (about 20 of these are mineralogical in content). The history of Harwick is then presented covering from antiquity through the middle of the 17th century. The text is divided into the five sections of topography, natural history, dynastic history of the town, municipal, political or civil constitution of the town, and historical notes. Dale felt however that Taylor's section on natural history was somewhat lacking and so he included a long appendix that describes all aspects of the natural history of the area, including its geology and mineralogy. Dale provides descriptions of the fossil shells and teeth, pyrite and quartz crystals found in the area, some of which are pictured on plates 10 to 13.

Silas Taylor. (Born: Harley, Shropshire, England, 16 July 1624; Died: Harwick, England, 4 November 1678) English antiquarian. Taylor fought on Cromwell's side in the English Civil War, and he was rewarded. However, after the restoration of the King, he lost all that he had gained, but due to obligations owed him by connected persons, he was appointed Keeper of the King's storehouses in Harwick. He was a collector of all objects, especially manuscripts and antiquites.

3. English, 1732 [2nd edition].
The | History | And | Antiquities | Of | Harwich and Dovercourt, | In the County of Essex, | By Silas Taylor, Gent. | To which is added a large | Appendix | containing | The Natural History of the Sea-Coast and Country about | Harwich, particularly the Cliff, the Fossils, Plants, Trees, | Birds and Fishes, &c. | Illustrated with Variety of Copper Plates. | [rule] | By Samuel Dale, | Author of the Pharmacologicia. | [rule] | The Second Edition. | [rule] | London: | Printed for C. Davis in Pater-noster Row, T. Osborn in | Gray's-Inn, and H. Lintot at the Cross Keys against St. Dunstan's | Church in Fleet-street. MDCCXXXII.